Sunday, February 24, 2013

The One with the San Diego Temple

One of the things I really wanted to do on our bucket list was a session in the San Diego Temple. But, it's two hours away (that's with no traffic, which, let's be honest, is never...), what would we do with the kids during the two hour session, so on and so forth. I even tried arranging a group to go down and we'd trade off babysitting/attending a session, but it fell through. Then our friends the Bybees said they got a hotel in San Diego and asked if we wanted to come down and spend a few days and go to the zoo. Fo sho! It was also the perfect opportunity to do a temple session - we'd go through first and they'd watch the kids (5 kids 3 and under!) and then vice versa. We headed to San Diego at 8:30am this past Tuesday and arrived at 10:30am - there wasn't traffic - hooray!

We checked into the hotel and then wanted to make the 12pm temple session so we quickly gave instructions for our kids (we've never left Jane with anyone during the day before, so we crossed our fingers she'd be a good girl!) and headed to the temple. I was only able to take a couple of photos on the way in because we were short on time.

I'm so glad we were able to do this! We went back to the hotel and switched roles so the Bybees could go to the temple. 5 kids 3 and under was... fun? :) No but really, it was fine and then the next day we went to the San Diego Zoo! Recap coming tomorrow!

I'm from Seattle. Chris is from Denver. We met at BYU and got married in 2007 in the Nauvoo, IL temple. Chris graduated from the USC School of Dentistry in 2013 through an Army scholarship and now we owe 4 years of dental service. We are stationed in Grafenwöhr, Germany and we LOVE to travel all around Europe! I'm a stay-at-home-working-mom to our son Fox and daughter Jane. Scrapbooking is my passion and I have my own signature collections with Pink Paislee called Fancy Free and Take Me Away! I'm a blogger for Scrapbook Expo, a teacher at Big Picture Classes and Craftsy, and I have an Etsy shop on the side. I also enjoy teaching scrapbooking and bookbinding workshops. We love life and can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.